Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
15
January
1985

ISBN: 9781557750662

There is considerable controversy about the relative costs and benefits of foreign direct investment to developing countries. The principal argument in its favor is that the package of capital and technologi...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
15
January
1985

ISBN: 9781557750662

Most developing countries combine some degree of regulation of direct investment, aimed at improving their net benefits, with various incentives designed to attract it. During the 1960s and much of the 1970s...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
15
January
1985

ISBN: 9781557750662

At present, most industrial countries maintain relatively few restrictions on capital outflows and provide some encouragement for direct investment in developing countries, through guarantee and insurance sc...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
15
January
1985

ISBN: 9781557750662

The shift in the composition of capital inflows into developing countries toward relatively more bank credit and less foreign private investment is likely to have increased their vulnerability to various eco...